Saturday, March 27, 2010

Rug Hooking Again!

I have been wanting to hook and procrastinating about it. This week I received a rug pattern from Maria Barton, Star Rug Company.It was a for a prize I won in our ebay group, USAPRIM.

I decided to try multi-colored textures, to give it more of a folk art fraktur look.These are the wools that I picked for the birds and the background.

On this bird, I used a dark and light, red plaid that was from a recycled Scottish wool skirt. I used a brighter red for the wing.

I wanted to do two red birds, but with different shades, so I used a darker, black and red plaid for the body and the tail color as this one's wings, to balance it out. You can also see where I used the lighter, multi plaid with blue, for the background. If I recall correctly, that wool was a thrift find.

The blue bird is done with the darker blue for the body, the texture's design doesn't show up as well as I wanted. I used a contrasting blue/green for the wing. When hooking with mulit-colored textures, you never know what colors will pop us where, so it makes it fun to discover the designs as you hook.